What Does Acts 3:18 Mean in the King James?
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The word God announced through the prophets becomes full in the Anointed One’s suffering.
THE MEANING
God’s word reaches its fullness through the Anointed One’s suffering. The suffering stands inside what God has spoken, giving the announced word its concrete form.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that suffering means God’s word has failed: here, the suffering itself is where the announced word reaches fullness.
THE ROOT
ἐπλήρωσεν
eplērōsen
GROWS FROM
πληρ-
Fill; bring to fullness or completion.
The Greek verb πληρόω (plēroō, to fill or bring to fullness) gives “fulfilled” the sense of something reaching its full measure. The verse presents the Anointed One’s suffering as the point where the prophetic word takes concrete form.
ALSO GROWS
plērēs: Full, complete.
πλήρης
This branch keeps the sense of fullness close to the verb translated “fulfilled.”
plērōma: Fullness, that which fills.
πλήρωμα
The shared root makes fulfillment a movement toward fullness, not merely the checking of a prediction.
παθεῖν
pathein
GROWS FROM
παθ- (πάσχω, paschō)
Undergo or experience; in this context, suffer.
“suffer” in this verse is pathein. The verb carries the sense of undergoing or experiencing. Because this is what the prophets announced, suffering appears as the lived content of the word reaching fullness.
ALSO GROWS
pathos: Experience, what is undergone; suffering.
πάθος
This related word keeps suffering connected to an experience lived through.
pathēma: Suffering, affliction endured.
πάθημα
It names the suffering itself as something undergone, echoing the verse’s concrete account of the prophetic word.
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρι- (χρίω, chriō)
Anoint; mark with oil.
“Christ” in this verse is Christos. Χριστός (Christos) means “the Anointed One,” a title formed from χρίω (chriō, to anoint). The verse holds that identity together with suffering: the Anointed One’s title does not stand apart from what he undergoes.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: Anoint.
χρίω
The verb names the action at the root of the title “Anointed One.”
chrisma: Anointing.
χρῖσμα
This related noun keeps the title connected to the act of anointing.
THE PATTERN
God’s announced word reaches fullness through the suffering it names, with glory following.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.THE THREAD
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?Luke 24:26 uses the same Greek verb, παθεῖν (pathein, to suffer), as Acts 3:18. The shared word links suffering to entry into glory, while Acts names that suffering as the fullness of what the prophets announced.
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